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I read it, and the only definition is competent. The definition quoted in the article is a draft of a proposal.
You may ask where I got this definition from. Conveniently is is in the new draft ACOP, click on the link to the HSE consultation and you can download it. The same definition has been around for a long time but written in difficult language and buried in other HSE documents.
Who is Competent To Do DIY gas work?
To make it easier for you to check I am right I have copied and pasted the section here from the ACOP:
57 Anyone who works on a gas fitting…. Therefore, do-it-yourself gas engineers and those performing favours for friends and relatives all need to have the required competence.
58 Competence is a combination of practical skill, training, knowledge, experience to carry out the job in hand safely, and ensuring the installation is left in a safe condition for use. Knowledge must be kept up-to-date with changes in the law, technology and safe working practice.
60 Gas work should not be undertaken except:
a) by a person who has successfully completed an industry recognised training course followed by assessment of competence. Training that leads to assessment of competence in safe gas work must be recognised by the industry’s Standards Setting Authority. or
b) in the case of a previously Registered person, they have proved competence through a Certification Scheme. or
c) for those working at premises that fall outside the scope of the Regulations (see regulation 2(4) and associated guidance), by a person who has successfully completed an industry recognised training course followed by assessment of competence.
61 Training should be of a standard to enable a gas engineer to achieve competence in the safe installation, purging, commissioning, testing, servicing, maintenance, repair, disconnection, modification and dismantling, of the gas systems, fittings and appliances with which they are working. This should include an adequate knowledge of associated services, such as water and electricity, of the dangers they may give rise to and the precautions to take.
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You ignored the next paragraph
"To be competent to do gas work if you are not actually gas safe registered you must have completed and passed the same training course as those who are GSR."